FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONVENTION 79 



ADDRESS OF MR. T. A. BORMAN, AT SESSION HELD 



AT NORMAL COLLEGE, CARBONDALE, ILL., 



JANUARY 26, 1916. 



Mr. Chairman, Young Ladies and Gentlemen : The hands 

 from the young women did not come quite as strong as I would 

 have been pleased to have seen them. I suspect there are young 

 ladies who have milked cows who live on the farm who did 

 not raise their hands. I find that in every community there is a 

 feeling among the men folks as well as among the women folkf^ 

 that dairying is not a woman's job. It is a woman's job — that 

 is my contention; that, except for the cows actually milked by 

 the women of the United States on the farms on which dairy 

 cows are kept, the dairy business of this country would be in a 

 mighty sad plight. 



Dairying is a woman's job, but it is not the job for fihe 

 women that it ought to be. It should be more dignified tjlian 

 it is at the present time. There is no drudgery in dairying if 

 the cows kept on the farm are good cows. It has been my ob- 

 servation that drudgery is attached to a job only in proportion 

 as that job fails to pay well for the effort given it. If dairy- 

 ing is profitable, if it is the kind of dairying we must have in 

 this country to accomplish the results as referred to by previous 

 speakers, we must have profitable dairying, and with that sort 

 of dairying there will be no drudgery. 



The nearest to a break between my mother and my wife 

 was over the number of pounds of milk in the milk pails. It 

 was whether the cow my wife was milking gave sixty pounds 

 of milk or sixty-one. If it was sixty-one pounds, it was just 

 a little in excess of the cow my mother was milking — that was 

 the point of contention. When you get this dairy business 

 down to the point where you are watching the production of 

 every day and that cow is giving milk for the feed and labour! 

 consumed, there will be that interest and all of this talk aboul: 

 drudgery will be forgotten. 



So we must dignify this dair)^ business by an increased pro- 



